Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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You can almost taste the pressure now. ~Vin Scully
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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